Category: Personal Growth & Change

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Stealing as a Search for Love July 9, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Jenny, Sarah, Stephanie D'Ambra, Susan
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Armand DiMele argues that theft, in nearly all its forms, is rooted in a felt absence of love. From childhood shoplifting to time theft at work, he traces how people take what they cannot seem to receive. Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW, joins to discuss fighting institutional systems, and callers weigh in on corporate fraud and righteous anger.

Management Lessons from the Mayo Clinic with Leonard Berry July 7, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Leonard Berry
Category: Personal Growth & Change, Society, Culture & Current Events

What makes the Mayo Clinic work after 140 years? Marketing professor Leonard Berry argues it comes down to hiring for values, practicing team medicine, and treating organizational culture as a living thing rather than a slogan. Armand DiMele draws the lessons out toward any workplace or institution.

Finding Your Sense of Home June 25, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Home is where love and safety meet, and Armand DiMele traces that feeling back to our evolutionary roots, from cave dwellers seeking food and mates to modern adults who forget how to play. A schoolteacher caller from New Jersey brings the theme to life, describing how fear has replaced recess.

Reading People When You First Meet Them June 23, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

What are you actually doing when you size someone up? Armand DiMele breaks down the unspoken calculus of first encounters, from appearance and energy to eye contact and attitude, then invites callers to reveal themselves through animal, color, and water imagery.

The Need to Trust June 17, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Why do we so desperately need someone to trust, and how do we know when that trust is being exploited? Armand DiMele examines the psychology of trust from both sides, dissecting how gurus, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals earn or betray it, then takes a call from a man struggling to quit a long marijuana habit.

The Genius of Instinct with Henry Weisinger June 16, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Henry Weisinger, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Our instincts are not primitive liabilities but hardwired tools for success that evolution refined over hundreds of thousands of years. Henry Weisinger, author of The Genius of Instinct, walks through six key instincts with Armand and Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW, showing how shelter seeking, care soliciting, and emotional vulnerability help people move from merely surviving to genuinely thriving.

The Pleasure of Repetition June 4, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Repetition is the hidden engine behind nearly everything we enjoy, from exercise and music to sex and daily ritual. Armand DiMele argues that recreation is literally re-creation of the self, and that understanding your own repetitions is key to recognizing what you truly need. Callers explore compulsive eating, adoption anxiety, and a father’s struggle with his daughter growing up.

The Qualities of a True Leader April 30, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

What makes someone a genuine leader? Armand DiMele examines the qualities that define effective leadership, from integrity and humility to assertiveness and creativity, then traces how birth order and family dynamics shape the way people relate to power and authority throughout their lives.

The Human Need for Certainty and Significance April 21, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Camille, Denny, Felicia, Giuseppe, Heidi, Stephanie D'Ambra, Tony
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Drawing on Tony Robbins’ TED talk, Armand DiMele unpacks four core human needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, and love. Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW co-hosts as callers weigh in with stories of illness, grief, and new beginnings, making the framework feel lived-in rather than theoretical.

The Urge to Fall Asleep in Your Own Life March 26, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Waking up is not just physical. Armand DiMele argues that most people drift through jobs, marriages, and daily life in a kind of waking sleep, and that irritability, numbness, and drug use are often just attempts to stay unconscious. Callers explore what it takes to finally show up for their own lives.